Seizure of illegal vapes and testing for prohibited substances, 2023-2024
Case reference FOI2024/00273
Published 28 February 2024
Request
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and relates to your trading standards service.
Please can you provide the following information. If possible, please can you provide these statistics broken down by month.
1) How many illegal vapes have been seized by the trading standards service in the past year (January 2023 - January 2024)?
2) Of these vapes, how many were tested for the presence of prohibited substances?
3) Of those tested, how many tested positive for fentanyl?
Response
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and relates to your trading standards service.
Please can you provide the following information. If possible, please can you provide these statistics broken down by month.
1) How many illegal vapes have been seized by the trading standards service in the past year (January 2023 - January 2024)?
2023
January 0
February 77
March 0
April 0
May 208
June 0
July 0
August 157
September 0
October 136
November 0
December 0
2024
January 0
Total 578
2) Of these vapes, how many were tested for the presence of prohibited substances?
None.
3) Of those tested, how many tested positive for fentanyl?
None.
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